Bandh in Imphal over fake encounter

Imphal was paralysed on Sunday following a dawn-to-dusk bandh called by Maoist Communist Party, Manipur (MCPM), an underground party, demanding fitting punishment for the police officials found guilty in the infamous BT Road fake encounter.

TNN | Feb 22, 2016, 11:25 IST

Imphal: Imphal was paralysed on Sunday following a dawn-to-dusk bandh called by Maoist Communist Party, Manipur (MCPM), an underground party, demanding fitting punishment for the police officials found guilty in the infamous BT Road fake encounter.

Business establishments at Khwairamband bazaar and its surroundings were closed because of the bandh called from 5am. Interstate and district passenger buses were off the road, even as police remained on high alert in the capital to thwart any untoward incident.

The bandh has also affected routine activities in other districts. Former rebel Chungkham Sanjit (22) and a pregnant woman Th Rabina Devi were killed in the "fake encounter" on BT Road in Imphal city on July 23, 2009. The incident triggered large scale public protest, demanding befitting punishment for the guilty police officials.

In January, Manipur head constable Th Herojit Singh confessed that he had gunned down Sanjit (22) inside a pharmacy along BT Road on the orders of Akoijam Jhalajit Singh, an ASP then. Singh is presently the SP of Imphal West district.

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